I muttered something stupid and got back to what I was doing.Went back to work…the song is playing in my head.While driving back stopped by at a gas station, it’s still playing.

Had dinner. Watched Colbert and J-Stew. It’s still there..

Fired up Google.

Here is my working set:1) Can you measure the likability of a song ?

2) Can you measure replayability ? (Malcolm Gladwell in Blink, why Kenna’s music career never took-off because his songs were never picked-up by Radio stations and played over and over)This has huge potential for music industry if you can figure out some way to measure “re-playability”.

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”

4) Can we split a song into X-variables like pitch, tone and do some analysis to find songs in a particular “zone” ?(I honestly dont know what these potential variables are..)

Maybe..

5) Thinking like a System Admin:Can we create a Bayesian Filter like Spam Bayes and train it to spot a good-song from a bad-song?Lets not take songs in random.Lets setup the test with Top200/500 in Billboard and evaluate “good mail” from “spam mail”.We are trying to predict which songs in Top 100-500 range will break in to Top-50/100If we are wrong, we train the filter.